Open Source Market Forecast

Databases

Publication Date	September 2006
Publisher	Ovum
Product Type	Report
Pages	26
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	OVM00045

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Summary

This report examines the overall open source database (OSDB) market solely from the perspective of the revenues directly attributable to the database products. It includes both product and service revenues, but ignores the revenues from any other hardware and software elements that may come bundled with it.

Content

Key messages
Small but growing fast
- The redefinition of the database market
- IBM or Oracle will open source their core database offering
- A service market
- Regional market split
- Supply-side dynamics
Vendor market shares
- A three tier market
- Vendor consolidation towards the end of our forecast period
- Demand-side dynamics
The 'motivated' to 'mainstream' transition
An enterprise rather than embedded software market
ISVs and tools will be key to enterprise OLTP database uptake
The rise of an OS business intelligence (OSBI) stack will be key to enterprise BI OSDB database uptake
Still an enterprise server market
OSS credentials
- Low cost
- Easier licensing regime
- Source code access and change
- Ability to pick and mix components
- Cross-platform support
- Independence and availability
- Software quality
- Community support
Incumbents' strategy
Positively influenced
- Still in charge
- Microsoft first, OSDBs second
- Free databases
- OSDB against Microsoft
- LAMP support
- It's the stack that counts
Main OSDB vendors' strategy
- MySQL
- Spleepycat Software
- Ingres Corp
- PostgreSQL
- EnterpriseDB
- Greenplum
- Pervasive Software
- Sun
- Firebird
- Apache Derby
- Oracle/Innobase